Lecturers Win Secret Writing Contest

 

Robert Alderman and Alison Jaenicke were awarded top honors for the 2016 Center for American Literary Studies “Secret Writing Contest.”

This year’s contest was inspired by author Karen Abbott’s Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy, a work of historical nonfiction recounting the Civil War through the eyes of four different women whose intrepidity leads to smuggling secrets across enemy lines.

 

Robert won for his poem, “Watch for the Patterns, Watch for the Wires.”  Alison won for her non-fiction, “Sisterhood of Spies.”

All the contest award winners were congratulated at  “An Evening with Karen Abbott,” on March 16 at 7PM at the John Bill Freeman Auditorium, Penn State HUB-Robeson Center.